Therese Borchard is the author of the hit daily blog, “Beyond Blue” on Beliefnet.com, one of the most popular columns on the site. Her blog appears weekly in The Huffington Post and she is becoming a top go-to expert in pop psychology. Her work has recently been cited in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Her work has been featured in salon.com, Psychology Today, Real Simple, Redbook, Parenting, More, and Ladies Home Journal. She is the author of “I Love Being a Mom” (a Target selection), and co-author of “I Like Being Catholic.” She resides in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and two young children.

From the Editor

“Whenever Therese Borchard was weathering a personal storm, and help was nowhere to be found, her one guiding light was the question, ‘What would a therapist say?’ The result was a sort of therapy scrapbook for rough days -a quick reference for anyone who needs a dose of encouragement, support, and tried and true ways to cope.“

My Opinion

I’ve been a Therese’s fan since I first read her book, “Beyond Blue,” where she talks about her experience surviving depression and anxiety. She is quirky, she is real, she is funny, she is very honest, and she is not afraid to share her daily struggles, if doing so will help someone else. She is committed to educating people about mental health even if it means putting her own life out in the open for all to see. She writes about depression, anxiety, postpartum depression, and suicidal thoughts, among others topics.

“The Pocket Therapist” is like having a therapist, well, in your pocket, the book is small enough to carry in you purse and contains 144 tools, techniques, and thoughts that may help when you feel depressed, conflicted, or anxious. Therese adds her characteristic humorous twist to every page and I couldn’t help but smile every time I finished reading each. Here is one example: She says every afternoon, between four thirty and six, “… the time of the day when all the processed sugar and red dye from the Superman cupcakes served at one of the birthday parties at my kids’ school start to make my life a living hell,” she sits in her favorite rocking chair and she is not allowed to insult herself or feel that she is in some way at fault for her children’s behavior. I should try that!!

I found “The Pocket Therapist” a great way to stay away from negative thinking and a good resource for ideas on how to cope with depression and anxiety. I hope this book is translated into Spanish some day, I know some folk who would benefit from it.

If you would like to read an excerpt of “The Pocket Therapist” click HERE, if you would like to buy it, clickHERE. If you would like to read an excerpt of “Beyond Blue” click HERE, if you want to buy it, click HERE. If you would like to win them, here is your opportunity.

Giveaway

Hachette Book Group has generously offered 3 copies of “The Pocket Therapist” to give away to my readers. To participate you just need to go to Therese’s blog, come back and let me know something you learned OR tell me a situation you’ve experienced when you felt a pocket therapist would have been helpful. Fill out the form below with your answer and contact info, submit it, and you’ve got your required entry, but…. guess what, Hachette Book Group is being even more generous and is adding “Beyond Blue” to the giveaway, so winners will get both her books!!

After you have filled out the form, and if you would like more entries, you can do the following:

1. Already be or become a follower of this blog. (you can do it where you see the small pics) 1 entry

4. Blog about this giveaway, please come back and paste the link. 2 entriesPlease leave a comment for each option (1,2,3,and/or 4), so I know how many entries you have. This giveaway will end Friday, May 7th, at 11:59 p.m. PST. Open to residents of the USA and Canada only. Winners will be randomly chosen. Void where prohibited. Thanks and good luck!

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Disclosure: I received a copy of both books to facilitate my review. The opinions in this post are solely my own.